Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are bringing their children to a school about which they already know a great amount and have decided that it meets their needs . |
| 2 | They always had a great deal to say , for they knew one another so well . |
| 3 | They nearly spoiled a great day out . |
| 4 | But they now had a great advantage because they knew that their viral DNA was in the gene and so they could use this knowledge to fish out the gene that clearly plays some role in limb development . |
| 5 | All feel they now have a great deal more to offer their customers and their employers . |
| 6 | Mr Thornton 's position may be more sympathetically received today , when ‘ paternalism ’ has become a dirty word ; but if , as a later critic was to claim , such philanthropists as Dorothea wished only to fulfil their own personal sentiment of pity and justice , and could not escape the disability of their arbitrary self-appointment , they undoubtedly had a great deal to contribute in the absence of state measures to fill the gap . |